Dictionary of Philosophy by Peter A. Angeles

Book Description

The student of philosophy often feels bewildered by the vast terminology of the subject. "HarperCollins Dictionary of Philosophy" helps lessen the confusion by providing a single source of clear and understandable definitions of philosophic terms. Emphasis is on the areas most commonly covered in introductory philosophy courses: epistemology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics and the philosophies of religion and politics.

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Books By Author Peter A. Angeles

A collection of essays, which presents the case against belief in God. It rejects the view that moral values and human purpose require divine sanction. It evaluates the arguments for God's existence, the validity of mystical experience, and the importance of the God concept for the development of morality and meaning in life.

Stresses the problem of God as a logical and philosophical problem. This book offers a critically analytic perspective in the Naturalistic-Humanistic tradition. It features an issues or problems approach and is set in a historical context with quotations from Greek philosophy, the Church Fathers, the Medieval period, and from philosophers.

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